Timbuktu Comments

  • Horacio 2023-09-30 14:38:02

    A typical example of winning by subject matter, a group portrait of a group of people who lost their freedom under the oppression of terrorists, a cow on the verge of death, and a person being punished form an echo. People walking or running in the desert are like fighting beasts. The director clearly conveys a sense of tragedy that is powerless to control fate, but the characterization is not three-dimensional except for a group of families, and the rest is not three-dimensional. The whole...

  • Tatyana 2023-09-25 07:03:57

    3.5. I've always felt that one of the problems with movies is that the camera is always far away from objects and brutal events, or simplifying some extreme events. And most of the time in the movie is a literary drama, depicting the customs of Timbuktu. Looking back, this perspective does not pose a big problem. It is just that the director's choice of perspective is actually more like an outsider or bystander, and he did not investigate the mechanism and causal relationship of all these...

  • Xzavier 2023-09-20 16:58:53

    Resist? Nonviolent...

  • Dean 2023-08-30 05:17:51

    Not to mention extreme religious beliefs, I think having beliefs is a very strong and terrible thing in itself. There is a silent power to this...

  • Jaden 2023-08-13 14:14:08

    The ending song is a bit...

  • Dessie 2023-08-11 08:07:07

    Horror and ignorance are...

  • Linwood 2023-08-01 00:11:21

    Colonial directors can make it so good. There are a number of scenes and soundtracks that are very sensible, but I want to play a multi-line narrative but it's a mess. This crew is in urgent need of a dramatist, no one checks the drama, and the actors' movements and expressions are inconsistent where the scenes are...

  • Westley 2023-07-30 04:46:36

    Winning in the subject matter, there are some bright...

  • Daniela 2023-07-21 19:53:27

    .friok. Always discussing, always afraid, always praying, but it still...

  • Emmalee 2023-07-19 08:21:48

    Screening&auteur's Q&A. Timbuktu life picture scroll. Music photography is superb. The director is more serious and serious. The film was originally made in Mali but later moved to the director's home country and received government funding. The film language that shows the local people's feelings is unique and humorous. I really like "playing football"...

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  • Jacklyn 2022-09-16 04:35:50

    Timbuktu: Life is far more brutal than the movies, isn't it?

    Timbuktu is located on the southern edge of the Northern Sahara Desert, on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Niger River, a famous river in West Africa. According to the romantic saying of the ancient nomads in West Africa, the Sahara is not a desert, but a "land and sea", and Timbuktu is...

  • Rylan 2022-09-15 12:02:56

    political propaganda

    I didn't watch the movie, I just read the movie reviews.
    Mali, like the Islamic countries in Africa, is a multi-ethnic country. Similar to Sudan's split into North and South Sudan, the Tuareg people in northern Mali also demand independence, but what makes these countries exist temporarily?...

Timbuktu quotes

  • Omar: Satima?

    Satima: I'm listening.

    Omar: I'm Abdelkarim's driver. I have a message from him: "He can't do anything to help. It's over".

  • L'Imam: [to a jihadist] Stop this. You cause harm to Islam and Muslims. You put children in danger in front of their poor mother. You even hit the mother of two children without any good reason. Before you came, a woman was here to complain that you forced her to wear gloves-- here they are-- without convincing her of their usefulness, as is prescribed by Allah and His prophet. Remember the words of Allah the Almighty: "So pardon them. Consult them in the matter. Speak with them. Once you've made a decision, put your trust in Allah, for He loves those who rely upon Him." Where's leniency? Where's forgiveness? Where's piety? Where's exchange... exchange? Where is God in all this?

Timbuktu

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

Language: French,Arabic,Bambara,English,Songhay,Tamashek Release date: December 10, 2014